The cevoTape tapes, individually manufactured and customized for the mainstream automated fiber placement process, offer a choice for mass production at a reasonable cost
cevoTape during production
The correct fiber is essential for the quality of composite parts!
Therefore, Cevotec has developed cevoTape, a dry fiber unwound tow made of high-quality carbon fiber rovings, which are bonded together with a copolymer polyamide adhesive.
"With cevoTape, we provide alternatives for expensive aerospace-certified strips." Thorsten Groene, managing director of Cevotec, said, 'It is suitable for non-aerospace applications such as the automotive industry. Those who are looking for strips for their customers Manufacturers of AFP/ATL devices have shown a strong interest in our products. Initial tests on cevoTape using their robot placement heads were also very successful.
Cevotec processes its own unidirectional carbon fiber tape (unwrapped tow) on the SAMBA Series Fiber Patch Placement system, but cevoTape also fully meets the requirements of other automated fiber placement processes, such as the ability to create high quality laminates for AFP and The ATL process can also be used for a variety of different applications.
cevoTape has a custom width with the smallest tolerances, and with its integrated quality monitoring, its fiber distribution is very uniform.
On one side, uniformly distributed PA adhesives are activated at temperatures of 90-60°C, so that cevoTape is easily fixed during processing, and another advantage is that it can be stored at room temperature.
'Customers can come to us with their choice of roving material, let us create personalized strips for them, we can process any high-quality fiber,' Michl said.
Spool of cevoTape
Alternatively, stocked tapes pre-formed with Tenax-E HTS45 fiber are available for customer selection. They are 20mm or 30mm wide and have a basis weight of 80~107g/m2. They are separated by a paper film and stored on a Häfner spool (250m , Customized length as required).
In addition to being compatible with SAMBA's batch manufacturing system, Cevotec also guarantees the highest quality and smallest strip size tolerances in all major lay-up processes, allowing manufacturers to obtain the high placement quality and operational precision they want.